Eugene Prosper Perevod ( fr. Eugène Prévost ; April 23, 1809 - August 20, 1872) - French composer , conductor and musicologist .
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He began to form as a musician under the influence of his older sister, the opera singer Zoya Prevo . In 1827 he entered the Paris Conservatoire , studied in the composition class of Jean-François Lesueur, along with Hector Berlioz . In 1831, he was awarded the Rome Prize for the vocal duet “The Flight of Bianca Capello ”, in the premiere performance of which his sister and sang .
After spending a few months in Rome, he returned to Paris in 1834. His first opera, Prevo, “Cosimo, or the Painter-Plasterer” ( fr. Cosimo ou le Peintre badigeonneur ), staged in 1835 in the Opera Comic , brought him considerable success. It was followed by the one-act comic opera Cadiz Pontoons ( fr. Les Pontons de Cadix ; 1836), the large-scale Esmeralda (1836, after Victor Hugo 's novel The Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris ) and several other small one-day operas, mostly comic.
In 1838 he was invited to work in Louisiana and became the chief conductor of the French Theater in New Orleans , making his debut with the production of The Barber of Seville . He successfully performed in New York and Philadelphia , as well as in the Netherlands (in 1850-1852 he worked in the theater in The Hague ); During this period of his life he wrote a number of operas and staged ballet. He returned to Paris in 1861 after the beginning of the Civil War in the USA, but a year later he gave a charity concert in New Orleans. In August 1863, he became the conductor of the Paris Opera , and also headed the Bolshoi Theater Orchestra in Lyon. From 1864 to 1867 he worked in the theater-buff Offenbach . At the end of 1867 he returned to New Orleans, where he taught music and singing at the Loket Institute. In 1871 he wrote his last opera.
In 1831 he married the singer Eleonora Colon (real name of Augustine Dejean-Le Roy, 1807 —?). The eldest son, Leon Prevost (1831–1877), was a composer and conductor who worked in New Orleans. His brother, Eugene Prevost Jr. (1840-1856), the violinist of the orchestra under the direction of his father, was killed by an accidental shot while hunting. The third son of Prevost is formally considered Toussaint Prevost, known as a pianist and composer under the pseudonym Theodore Ritter , however his wife Prevo gave birth to him a year and a half after her husband left for the New World, and his real father was another man.
He died of hepatitis .
Notes
- B BNF ID : Open Data Platform - 2011.
- ↑ International Music Score Library Project - 2006.
Literature
- Prevost, Eugen-Prosper / / Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 tons (82 tons and 4 extra). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- Biography (Fr.) .
Links
- Biography (Fr.)